Suicide - Thought for Nurses
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Source: Becoming a Nurse - July 2, 2008
Viva Las Vegas!!!!
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A couple weeks ago I had the privilege of going to Vegas. What an experience! I had such an amazing time! The things I saw and did. I was there for 8 days and I still never got to see everything!
My biggest highlight was going to see Elton John in concert at Caesar’s Palace. What an amazing show! “Elton John & the Red Piano.” Nobody else in my group was interested in going, so I went by
Source: Days of My Life - June 30, 2008 Authors: Jennifer
weekend
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Since Meeegan asked - I am working tomorrow (Saturday) for 12 hours. I'm off on Sunday, though!I forgot one thing on my list of stuff I've learned so far - working as a nurse is excellent for dieting if you can avoid the junk food in the staff lounge. I barely have time to sit and eat my lunch - and I'm not even up to a full patient load yet. Also, I'm down 10 pounds since taking the NCLEX. Just 20 more to go to get back to my pre-nursing school weight. It's like I was pregnant for two years, or something.Tomorrow I'll be moved up to taking two patients. I handled one today pretty much independently and it went well. So I ...
Source: girl in greenwood - June 20, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
so far
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I've worked on the floor at BCH for 5 shifts and here are a few things I've learned so far:1) There is a device for cleaning out gnarly wounds called a waterpick. I did not know such a thing even existed before last week.2) Fentanyl lollipops (excuse me, transmucosal delivery systems) don't look like lollipops at all. They look like an instrument that is the perfect size to shove into a nostril, actually.3) If you are a morbidly obese diabetic man, you may want to look into personal hygiene, before you develop an infection where the sun doesn't shine. Holy crap, I've never seen wounds like that before.4) Apparently having ...
Source: girl in greenwood - June 18, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
worker bee
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Hello Internet, I have not visited with you in quite a while! My biggest news is that I started my new job as an RN at Big County Hospital (BCH from here on out). I had 5 8-hour days of classroom orientation the first week, which was shockingly exhausting. My brain felt swollen from acquiring so much information at such a rapid pace. The next week I had an all-day computer training which was excruciating - then I started out on the floor with my preceptor.This is a little confusing to explain, but I am not training on the unit where I will eventually be working. I was pretty upset about that when I found out, but after I m...
Source: girl in greenwood - June 16, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
New Nurse VLOG
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Please head on over to Damon's new BLOG/VLOG: Wounded Healer. You wont regret it.It is a wonderful beginning and I am so excited to welcome this new nursing student into nursing. Please check it out...
Source: Becoming a Nurse - May 26, 2008
I'm Back
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Well, it has been awhile since I have last entered anything in my blog. Partly because my life has been pretty uneventful, and partly because my blog is supposed to be half personal (for the people that check it to keep up with the latest developments in my life) and half medical (focused on nursing/medicine/health stuff, etc), and I have been out of school for a few weeks now so have been
Source: Days of My Life - May 24, 2008 Authors: Jennifer
decorator slugs
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Look at these sea slugs from National Geographic. They're beautiful! You could use some of them as inspiration for interior decorating.
Source: girl in greenwood - May 20, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
Long Time No VLOG
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Click to Play An update on my transition into nursing. Thoughts on community nursing, homecare.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Source: Becoming a Nurse - May 18, 2008
hempy*
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Top 50 'Sesame Street' MomentsToo much fun!*the way I pronounced Sesame when I was 2
Source: girl in greenwood - May 9, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
manipulative
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Ooh, interesting. One thing we talked about a lot in school is that labeling your patients as "drug-seeking" or "lazy" or what-have-you affects not only the care you provide, but the care that those around you think is appropriate to provide as well. "Manipulative" is one of those words, but I hadn't really thought about it before. Honestly, I had thought that some patients are in fact manipulative, so why not call a spade a spade?Then I read this piece from Maria. Here's a quote:"Consider striking the word “manipulative” from your vocabulary. Just describe what people are doing. “She says that she will kill herself ...
Source: girl in greenwood - May 8, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
RN!
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I passed the damn test!
Source: girl in greenwood - May 1, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
I did that.
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Took the NCLEX today. It shut off at 75 questions, which is the minimum. I think I feel okay about it. I won't know my results for a couple of days. Stay tuned!Afterwards, I went for burgers and beers with two classmates, then we went over to classmate E*'s house and drank beer and watched a movie, until more classmates arrived and we gave up on the movie and gossiped instead. It was fun.
Source: girl in greenwood - April 30, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
still here
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Still here. Still studying. One week to go. I know of 5 classmates who have passed so far. There are 3 more who have taken the test but haven't gotten results yet.I really can't think about anything else. Sorry to be boring.
Source: girl in greenwood - April 23, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
Yoga Today
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I did not even know this site existed! They post new approximately hour-long yoga videos for free. Just click on 'em and do your practice. Very cool.
Source: girl in greenwood - April 14, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
wow
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This is a collection of science-related tattoos. Awesome!!!!Now I'm wondering if my dad will get some phospholipids tattooed on his arm or something...
Source: girl in greenwood - April 9, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
study
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It has begun: the studying for the NCLEX. I took inventory of myself and my study habits, and then picked up the phone and called two my favorite, most focused classmates and asked them to study with me. R* and E* are both going to be my coworkers on the same unit at Big County Hospital and we will be going through orientation together as well. We conferred on which review books we had and how we should tackle this huge body of knowledge, and yesterday we started. Today we continued with an extra bonus classmate C*. So far we've gotten through 8 chapters of the Kaplan review book and have repeatedly exclaimed "why didn't t...
Source: girl in greenwood - April 1, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
book report: Electric Michaelangelo
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The Electric Michaelangeloby Sarah HallI'm really behind on my book report list. I read this book like a year ago. The strange thing is that I remember not liking it very much but finished it anyway. I just went back and read the Amazon reviews of the books and now I remember - the writing was really beautiful and the book introduced me to a world - a couple, actually - that were completely unfamiliar to me. But it was a sad and dark and disturbing book, and I think that's why I remember not liking it very much.Cy is a child of a single mother in a small seaside town in England early in the 20th century. His mother runs a ...
Source: girl in greenwood - March 27, 2008 Authors: girl_in_greenwood
Tagged - 8 Random Facts About Me
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Well, for the first time, I have officially been “tagged.” (Technically a couple weeks ago, but, as usual, I am a little behind.) So here goes…..
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In 8 facts about yourself, share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you. Then at the end you tag at least 8 other bloggers to keep the fun going. Here are the rules:
RULES:* Each
Source: Days of My Life - March 22, 2008 Authors: Jennifer
Change of Shift
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It has arrived! Another fabulous edition of Change of Shift. Check it out here.
My "Definition of a Hero" entry was even accepted this week (I am honoured!)
Source: Days of My Life - February 22, 2008 Authors: Jennifer
Definition of a Hero...
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Copied with permission from a MySpace friend who is a fire figher and EMT in the US. I think it is beautifully written and gives you something to think about:
I wish you could know what it is like to search a burning bedroom for trapped children at three am, flames rolling above your head, your palms and knees burning as you crawl, the floor sagging under your weight as the kitchen below you
Source: Days of My Life - February 11, 2008 Authors: Jennifer
The Big 3-0
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I didn't realize how much time has passed since my last blog entry; in fact I have even missed a few Change of Shift entries! Time has just been flying by!
Speaking of time flying by: Today I turned 30. I have been dreading this day for almost a year. It would make me angry, sad, scared... But last night that all changed.
I had a wonderful night out last night on my "Last night of my 20
Source: Days of My Life - February 3, 2008 Authors: Jennifer
Hoosier REGISTERED Nurse!!!!!!!!!!
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It's amazing how a random series of numbers/letters can change everything. The boulder on my back is gone. I desperately wanted to share this with my husband and of course, he is not in town. Poor guy was wakened at an unacceptably early hour, but he understood and I could hear the smile when I didn't even say hello, just "I passed." Right this very second, life could not be better!
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - January 4, 2008 Authors: hoosier student nurse
Boards blow.....
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I did it. I took my boards today. May I add that I didn't definitively know the answer to more than five questions on the whole damn test? I would get through one "check all that apply" to be greeted with "first priority". Then would come "what would indicate immediate attention to patient who had XYZ" and all of the possible answers were things I didn't have a clue about. Because of Big Brother, and the agreement that I won't share a single horrible question of that test, this is as specific as I intend to get, but know that I guessed my way through the whole thing. I had a ton of med questions (of which at least two were...
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - January 3, 2008 Authors: hoosier student nurse
Change of Shift
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As usual, I am late in my updating, but a new Change of Shift is up.
Check it out here.
Source: Days of My Life - January 1, 2008 Authors: Jennifer
Whirlwind!!!!
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I've been on my floor orientation for a week. Some days I've just followed, some I've taken a patient or two, just whatever the preceptor wanted. Since I'm not an RN, I can't do IV pushes or hang chemo yet, but everyone has been so good about running in and saying, "I've got a patient about to -fill in the blank- so do you want to watch/do it?" Thanks to them, because yesterday (my first full 12 hour shift), we had a very full house. Every bed occupied with one poor man in the hallway for two and a half hours while we scrambled to discharge someone to find him a spot. One nurse called in and there were no floats available....
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - January 1, 2008 Authors: hoosier student nurse
Full Panic Mode
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The test that will complete this journey is scheduled to be taken on Thursday. This weekend I pulled out the review book just to brush up on things I haven't seen in a while. The list of stuff I don't know is a mile long, and it is unreasonable that I'll learn them in the next three days. I did a practice test and instead of the usual 70-75% right, I scored a 60. I'm going to be in deep shit. Bummer.
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - December 31, 2007 Authors: hoosier student nurse
I hope this isn't a sign...
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Is it a bad sign that the first patient I cared for as a nurse died 12 hours later, especially since I said a quiet prayer that she would? Cancer is a mean, hard, cold, heartless bitch. Godspeed.
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - December 25, 2007 Authors: hoosier student nurse
Authorization to Test
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Got that today. Went online and scheduled my test date for January 3 @ 10:15am. Now I'm pretty nervous. I should do OK. Gotta keep my confidence up! I'm through with hospital orientation and will start my floor orientation tomorrow. I'll be working 8hr days for the first week, and then go to 12 hour days after that. After a while, they'll put me on nights which is what I was hired to work. I'm cool with nights, but I hope I get used to it pretty quick. I get tired by 10:00, so this is going to be a real adjustment. I get so amazed by the various jobs all of the people I've been blogging with all this time have decided on. ...
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - December 22, 2007 Authors: hoosier student nurse
Make every minute count...
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I saw a clip advertising a TV movie playing this weekend and the words kinda jumped out at me: (paraphrasing as usual) "What if you could have one more day with the one you love...." I found that kind of ironic, as it touches a little too close to home right now.
I am sitting at home right now in bed, with my beagle, Molly, sleeping in my lap. 24 hours ago I was a total wreck and at a complete
Source: Days of My Life - December 6, 2007 Authors: Jennifer
Who's getting pinned tonight?
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SO VERY TIRED..... I took my last regular test on Wednesday. Only made an 88, but that's ok. I can make a 26 on the final and still pass the class, so I'm not sweating it. We had clinical evals yesterday and I made an A. Pinning is tonight and since I have no family here, only my husband and a couple we hang out with are coming. I don't even care. When they hand me the packet that I can send into the state to schedule my boards is when I'll truly feel like a nurse.My kid had what is supposed to be a blood clot in his heart near the prosthetic heart valve. He was in the hospital for several days getting massive bolus's of H...
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - November 29, 2007 Authors: hoosier student nurse
Much to be thankful for..........
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Happy Thanksgiving!!! There is much to be thankful for this year. My RN program is winding down. Because I'm not continuing the BSN track that I planned, I'll have a six month reprieve from school which excites me beyond all reason. I got the job I wanted. My son is semi OK, my husband is great, and all my babies (kitties and doggies) are the best. I just got a letter three weeks before the end of the semester that I received a $2000.00 scholarship I applied for. I'm doing very, very well in school. Unless ATI is a big fat liar, I'm ready to pass the boards. All in all, a pretty good year. Now if my car will carry me to wo...
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - November 22, 2007 Authors: hoosier student nurse
Jobs in Health Care
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In conclusion, I have got given you respective different occupations that you can utilize as thought starter motors to assist you research occupations and wellness attention even further.
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 21, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
India - The New Employment Destination
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Several centuries ago on 31st December 1600 a grouping of enterprising British merchandisers were accorded 21 twelvemonth sole monopoly privileges to carry on all trade in the East Indies by the English royal Charter by Elizabeth Ii 1. These merchandisers incorporated these rights under the East Republic Of India Company and set afloat for the Indian shores to set up their first mill at Surat. This was undertaken following the grant of permission by then Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1615 to Sir Seth Thomas Roe, the envoy of King Jesse James 1. The corporation was of overriding significance for it laid the low fountains of th...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 20, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
Romney plays down health care
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The narrative sounds like classic stump-speech material. A concern leader and friend of then-Gov. Hand Romney suggested he could do his grade if he solved Massachusetts's wellness attention woes. Romney, a former consultant, took up the challenge, crunched the Numbers and developed a model for insuring nearly everyone in the commonwealth. Two old age later, through an impressive deed of bipartizan cooperation between the governor's business office and the legislature, he signed the country's first comprehensive effort at cosmopolitan wellness coverage. "An accomplishment like this come ups around once in a generation," he ...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 17, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
Loan Officers - Having Faith In The Mortgage Business Is NOT A Jedi Mind Trick
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With the mortgage industry in a state of daze or terror (I'm not certain which) we have got Mortgage Brokers and Loan Officers dropping out like crazy. Almost every twenty-four hours I hear of a Agent or an LO saying he's sticking to this business, he have "faith" this concern will pick up and it will acquire better. Then, almost every twenty-four hours I hear some of these same Broker's or LO's left the concern or closed their doors. I think the "faith" they had didn't last long.People presume manner too much in this business. There is manner too much Jedi Mind Control Stuff. Just because you believe something is changing...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 15, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
Kids Say the Darndest Things... aka "If Only..."
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I read something online last night that made me a little sad and nostalgic. Thinking back to some of the many lapses in judgment I made over the years, I caught myself doing the “if only…” Had I made different choices at certain crossroads in my life, my life would be totally different right now…
I happened to have Kid Nation on a few minutes later, and one of the kids summed it up nicely. (I’m
Source: Days of My Life - November 15, 2007 Authors: Jennifer
Change of Shift
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Another change of shift is up at Emergiblog.
Read it here :-)
Source: Days of My Life - November 15, 2007 Authors: Jennifer
Hasty health care deal not ready for prime time
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sfgate_get_fprefs();Rewarding coverage companies is not wellness attention reformWhile those who welcome a Golden State wellness attention trade at any cost will hearten the approaching general agreement between Democratic leadership and Gov. Matthew Arnold Schwarzenegger, there is ground to be wary of a hastily drawn program that could worsen the wellness insecurity for many Californians. No substance how you acquire dressed it up, the bundle still amounts to a immense gift for the coverage industry, with billions of new clients who may get small in return. Insurers will still make up one's mind who acquires care, bounds ...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 14, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
The Public Face of Wal-Mart's Health Care Program
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Linda M. Dillman, who supervises the employee wellness attention programme at , did not inquire for the job. Indeed, when the head executive director of the company, the world's biggest retailer, told her of the appointment, she wondered, "Did I do person mad? Are they trying to state me something?" For much of the last decade, labour groupings and state authorities pilloried the wellness attention Wal-Mart offered its 1.4 million workers and the executive directors who oversaw it. But Ms. Dillman, who took over the company's wellness attention programme in April 2006, have managed to win over some of Wal-Mart's traditi...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 13, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
Gonna Be A Bear
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Source: Days of My Life - November 11, 2007 Authors: Jennifer
Public-service fields offer loan incentives
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Only pupils who borrow from the federal authorities measure up for this deal. Students who borrow from Banks and other loaners can go eligible by consolidating their loans through the federal loan program. According to Department of Education, eligible occupations include "full-time job in exigency management, government, military service, public safety, law enforcement, public health, public education, societal work, public-interest law services, kid care, and public library sciences." *The federal statute law also supplies a flicker for pupils who daydream of teaching. Students in instruction and teacher-preparation pro...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 11, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
Missy has a JOB!!!
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I haven't blogged or talked to anyone about it because I didn't want to jinx it, but I was offered my 1st choice position today!!! It's funny that when I started this whole nursing thing, I thought I'll go in the ER and live on the adrenalin. As my nursing education has progressed, I have become more attracted to the patient and less to the "fly by the seat of my pants" need for thrills. I love the patients and their families. I love taking care of the same patients for several days and seeing their faces when I show up in the morning because they know I remember what they like and don't like. When their husbands, wives, c...
Source: Hoosier Student Nurse - November 9, 2007 Authors: hoosier student nurse
Career Test - Using Assessments For Changing Career
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Career diagnostic test is a great tool to define your calling choice. If you are not satisfied with your occupation this tool can help. Since occupation satisfaction is the manner to a extremum public presentation it is critical that you take a calling that offerings yourself every chance to excel. And calling appraisals are the reply when it come ups to selecting the perfect career. Appraisal diagnostic tests utilize a series of inquiries about your interests, about your style of working, and how you interact with other people. Questionnaires are an of import portion of calling appraisal tools. These questionnaires and th...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 9, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
Anti-aging Skin Care For Avoiding Wrinkles
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Skin attention and beauty aces have got often told us to rinse our human face gently with mild cleansing agents and moisturize, moisturize and moisturize. Anti ageing tegument attention can assist you look younger. Aging is a syndrome of alterations that are deleterious, progressive, cosmopolitan and thus far irreversible. There are respective key constituents to antiaging tegument attention in the effectual bar and treatment of mulct lines, furrows and the loss of vernal glow. The truth is furrows can not be seen by the bare human eye. Many women, and some work force too, usage anti ageing tegument attention products. The...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 7, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
Harvard University Screens Gripping New Documentary Exposing American Education
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvard Law School screened a unsmooth cut of the discovery docudrama movie Two Million Minutes on Friday, November 2 for a room full of Harvard University University alumnus pupils from the Law School, the Jack Kennedy School of Government and the . The movie analyzes instruction in the United States as it compares to planetary standards. Regardless of nationality, once children issue the 8th class – the clock starts ticking. They have got roughly Two Million Minutes to construct their intellectual foundation and set up for college and career. Those in attending...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 6, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
The Long Overdue Ending
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I know I promised to tell you about my NCLEX a couple months ago. I've just been so busy I've hardly had time to write in my regular blog, much less my nursing one! But let us get down to business first. This is what NCLEX was like for me:PreparationsI purchased the Kaplan Online Complete package for far too much money. The online course was soooo boring, but had some nice ideas and flowcharts and such. The online question bank was the best investment in the package, however. Answering several hundred questions really got my brain into NCLEX mode. I highly recommend the Qbank, but can take or leave the rest of the course.M...
Source: I am a Nursing Student - November 5, 2007 Authors: esunasoul
When Is It OK to Call in Sick?
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Last week Tuesday, nearing the end of my orientation at my new PCT (Patient Care Technician—basically the same as a CNA) job on the surgical telemetry unit of a local suburban hospital, I called in sick. I struggled with this decision, weighing my symptoms, their effect on my ability to do the job, the possibility of spreading infection, against the unit's need for my presence in the face of a regular shortage of PCTs.What I want to know from you all is how you make this delicate decision. What symptoms tip the scale for you? Assume that the symptoms listed below represent something out of the ordinary (e.g., "headac...
Source: I Wanna Be A Male Nurse - November 5, 2007 Authors: Jeffrey
Graduates are buried by debt
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It's no little thing to do it to the top of one of U.S. News and World Reports' college lists. But the folks at Elizabeth Seton Hallway University aren't exactly celebrating their No. One national ranking for student-loan debt. Sixty-one percent of pupils graduating from the South Orange campus have got to pay back pupil loans -- the norm totaling $37,724, according to America's Best Colleges 2008. The Numbers are high but they are not an aberration. Nationally, nearly two-thirds of alumni of four-year schools have got debt, according to the Undertaking on Student Debt. That debt loading norms $20,000. New federal measurem...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 4, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
Nurture Customer Service, And Success Is Yours
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I interviewed Becky Rhone-Nowlan about Customer Service dynamics.The followers is Part 2 of the interview:MagicBecky Messmer: May Iodine take it from an on-line perspective?Mooie Infinity: Yes indeed.MagicBecky Messmer: I speak about this in my book, "Secrets of the Second Fortune." When you get the procedure of creating your on-line mercantile you look for a job to work out right?Mooie Infinity: Right.MagicBecky Messmer: So you begin researching and getting into your prospects head, thinking how they think, figuring out how they feel. Your adjacent measure is to make your merchandise and start communicating with them.So y...
Source: Nursing Student Hell - November 2, 2007 Authors: Isapooh
